While I hate Thicke on purely subjective terms, I have to say this sort of thing gives me hope for the future. When the feminists, the ecomentalists and the do-gooder nanny-staters sound more and more like a cartoon of some hyper-religious parents, I know the next generation will have to rebel against the strictures. I'm not sure they'll swing my way, but watching the left lose the youth is worth it on its own merits.

The term itself, "kinda rapey," is itself a blurred line. It's a blurred line response to the Blurred Lines song.

The singer is wishing for a world where human sexuality is simple and black and white, where we don't play these games.

It would be nice if we had a black and white world in regard to rape, when we knew exactly which behavior is rape and which is not. It would be nice if we had no doubt whatsoever.

Some feminists have sought to expand the definitions of rape, to define more and more activities as rape. Feminism sees this as empowering for women. "Use the rape word and shut those men up!" One might also respond that it minimizes rape and actual rape victims.

See also Whoopi Goldberg and "rape rape." She created the "rape rape" word to describe actual rape, as opposed to date rape or marital rape or these rapes where we wonder if there is a rape or the woman is lying.

Feminists attempted to describe Thicke's song as a "rape song." This strikes many people as a dishonest use of the word "rape." See also "ultrasound is rape."

"Kind of rapey" is brilliant because it accurately describes the discomfort that feminists feel when they hear the song, a song about male lust for women and suspecting that they secretly want to have sex.

But "kind of rapey" is doing the exact same thing to feminist rhetoric. It subverts and undercuts the black and white term "rape" with a joke of a word, "kind of rapey." A woman who says a man is "kind of rapey" is not a woman who is serious about rape.

This term captures the discomfort many men feel when they hear feminists describe innocent behavior as rape, or when feminists don't seem to care about factual truth anymore.

Yet Crystal Mangum was not punished for her lies. She was not even prosecuted. She later went on to commit murder and was finally removed from the streets.

How would the feminists of Boston University feel if they were denounced as rape liars, as a threat to men?

Of course, some of the women who signed the petition might very well have been raped.

And yet the reality of rape does not justify accusing an innocent man of rape. Indeed, the use of the word "rape" in this case is every bit as dishonest as the use of the word in regard to ultrasounds.

They are liars, liars in that feminism and feminists have never been about equality. They have been and continue to be about special rights and entitlements. None of these folks have ever addressed or confronted those whom are falsely accused of rape or the unequal , and decidedly less stringent treatment, of female teachers whom rape their students.

I had to change the station every five minutes this summer, due to the songs heavy rotation on several stations.

I think the word "rapey" is very helpful. It distinguishes a dislikable song from the horrible crime of rape. It makes clear that women are not accusing the singer of being a rapist or advocating rape.

The word minimizes the accusation, takes the heated rhetoric down several notches.

But I also like the word because it's not as serious, and undercuts the feminist use of "rape" to do everything from outlaw pornography to obtaining abortion rights. (Jane Roe pretended to be a rape victim to get our sympathy).

I think a lot of feminists feel very real concern for rape victims. But their desire to censor art, and their willingness to attack innocent people with the "rape" word, does not help at all.

"Rapey" also identifies what feminism is attempting to do. They are attempting to correct our souls so that we do not have bad thoughts, bad ideas, bad songs, bad works of art.

"You are rapey" = an indictment of your soul.

"You are a rapist" = an actual crime charge.

Rapey identifies the user of the word as somebody who is willing to judge another person's soul. You are rapey, your song is rapey, your book is rapey. Those pants are rapey.

Rapey is a silly word. But it's a useful word, too. It showcases how feminism is minimizing the actual crime of rape, and how they have gone beyond any useful function and they are now attempting to censor art, books, plays, songs.

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Rambling a bit: I'm always a bit confused about terms like "rapey" because I'm pretty sure rape is about power (not sex per se) which may be a spoon feed myth for all I know, but feminism seems to be about power (not femininity per se) and most of the trappings of overtly sexual singers seems to be about power (not music per se). Cher's "If I could turn back time" in no way shape or form matches the video. See also "Wrecking ball" unless reference to male genitalia (possible I suppose).

How about "trashy"? I use it to describe stuff I won't listen to or watch because it promotes oversexualization. As I define it. Eye of the beholder stuff.

It seems modern feminists are in an all-out war over the twerking thing. Half want to celebrate any female dressing like a slut and behaving like one and the other half want to roll back the clock to 1890.

SOJO said... so let them put it off another day and have playtime at the university.

It isn't playtime though, it's training. The ones who are good at it go on to become Sandra Fluke or the Duke Gang of 88. We've provided a taxpayer funded radical activist training center. The fact that most wash out doesn't change how dangerous this is.

From the article, the only specific name I could tie to the protest is Patrick Johnson, a male. What a f***ing pussy.

Blurred Lines is not exactly great art, but the girls in the video are hot, everyone seems to be having a good time, and the "misogyny" is so tame it's nonexistent. Thicke and his producers are laughing all the way to the bank, as are the nude models who got a good payday plus publicity out of the whole thing. Did I mention the girls are hot and pretty much nude?